Day 12 Little Bighorn to Great Falls, MT


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Our home for the night at 7th Ranch RV Camp, which is a working ranch.
You can see forever in Montana. I know now why they call it "Big Sky Montana".



We started our day with a tour of Little Bighorn Battlefield.
General George Custer and 262 of his men, strongly out numbered, were massacred on June 25, 1876.
The Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians lead by Chief Sitting Bull were fighting to preserve their traditional way of life as nomadic buffalo hunters. The US Army was carrying out the Grant Administrations instructions to remove the Lakota, Sioux and Cheyenne peoples to the great Sioux Reservation in Dakota Territory.
These are a couple of headstones scattered around the battlefield. They are placed where each soldier or warrior died that day.
The white headstones are US Army and the red are for the Indian warriors.

A couple of modern day natives take a ride. Not uncommon to see men and women on horseback in Montana.







Left our camp at 11:30 headed for Great Falls. It was a long 334 miles.

Arrived at Dick's RV Park around 6:30 pm. Tomorrow on to Glacier Nat'l. Park.